Gaza, May 18 -- At least 64 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip on Saturday, the Civil Defence in Gaza said.

Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Civil Defence, told Xinhua that seven young men were killed and several others wounded when Israeli artillery shelled a group of Palestinians trying to reach their homes in the Shuja'iyya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.

Basal added that four people, including a woman and two children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the gate of Salah al-Din School, which houses displaced families in the west of Gaza City, while a fifth person was killed in an airstrike on a residential apartment north of the city.

At least 11 others were killed in attacks on a Pal...